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about the same time. These are very prettily mottled on the back with 
dark-brown, chocolate, and salmon color; head yellow, with a central 
stripe of dark brown. A triangular patch of chocolate covers the 
orifice of the ear. Under parts pale yellow, breast with a tinge of 
brownish. 
List of specimens. 
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Original Museum 
number. number. Sex. Localities. Date. Remarks. 
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408 Setar | enllas. (/oFuji-Vama 22. 02225222 = July 3, 1882 
RU istics) nc =5 =| Oo PMLLUS.| <= :0'< GOB Go neaiaeeiasiaceoiee July 3, 1882 
RIV eNet oer nc: | Olus., |fs= a dome sate July 3, 1882 
ait |* 88714.) Ballus. . | 2. -5.: COs arate teases oes July 3,1882, 
412 | 88715 | 9 pullus.|...... owes Ue, Uta | July 3, 1882 | 
THe ee ee 9 ad. | Tate-Yama, Shinshin.-... | Nov. 10, 1882 | Tris sienna brown. 
796 A Sea ie its Pomme ss Goetoheiee ek _ Noy. 21,1882} Iris bright chrome; bare 
841 eae ens) aU Bean Oars oes ceese| Dec. 4,1882| space around eye deep 
Mme eee = 225: 3 ad. aResee COS en peat | Dec. 6,1882) crimson. 
I ! | 
Phasianus semmeringii T. Temm.et Schl. Faun. Japon., 1°47, Aves, p.104: Blak- 
iston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 126. 
Found in the same localities as the preceding, but appears to range 
higher up the mountains than that species. Collected at Fuji, Chiu- 
senji, and in Shinshiu. 
List of specimens. 
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Original | Museum 
Sex. | Localities Date Remarks 
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namber. | number | | 
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| | eyelid pure white; bare 
=e : | ( | : 
413 | 88712 | oad. MD Ie Mama 2 oo 2 estat ncrctsieis, ie | July 3,1882 | Iris bright chestnut; lower 
space around eye crimson. 
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Lagopus sp. Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 127. 
Ptarmigan were said to be abundant in Shinshiu, being found on 
most of the high peaks of the Tate-Yama range. 
We did not succeed in getting any specimens, although feathers were 
seen and identified. The summits of most of the peaks are very rugged. 
Broken masses of rock with crevasses and overhanging ledges bar the 
way. ‘These are covered with a kind of dwarf pine the roots of which 
form a network over and around the rocks, leaving many sheltered 
places underneath. In these places the ptarmigan find protection in 
cold weather, where, of course, it is impossible to follow them. 
In summer we were told by the natives that they were very abundant 
aad tame, and quantities of them are killed for offerings at the mountain 
shrines. 
These birds are popularly believed to be under the special protection 
of the God of Thunder, and no mountain on which they are found will 
be subject to violent thunder-storms. Hence they are held in high 
veneration by the natives. 
Through the kindness of Captain Blakiston I have been able to ex- 
amine two specimens, an adult and a young in first plumage, which 
